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Central Futures Bulletin
October 2015
Welcome back and congratulations on
your results!
Central Futures Bulletin
Our Successes
Well done to all our wonderful leavers in 2015. We have had some incredible suc-cesses, including Otto starting his degree at Oxford in Mathematics and Humzah starting his degree in Architecture at Manchester. Congratulations to the incredible efforts of many of our vocational students such as Benjamin, Ioannis, Rasel and Anthony for achieving so highly and going onto great degrees along with so many of their peers.
Well done also to our host of students starting jobs and apprenticeships this Sep-
tember, such as Antonio, Abdul, Jennifer and Nahid, among many others.
Leavers
After a fantastic round of AS-level and BTEC results in 2015, we have a huge num-ber of Year 13s well on their way to great things. Well done to Hasan, Harlee, Liam, Christiana, Hadiul, Annyl and Baran, who are close to some incredible success in their vocational courses.
Also, well done to our string of A-level students many of whom are sitting on some A grades from their AS-level achievement, including: Hermon, Aiyah, Abdi, Ntuthu-ko, Tittykay, Salem, Sufian, Mahdy, Nabil, Domenik, Chinmoy, Rayhan, Said,
Derek and Adam.
Year 13
Congratulations to all of our Year 12s on their start to the year. All of you who have just completed your GCSEs, well done on your amazing achievements, and enjoy being able to select your favourite subjects now that you have started A-levels and BTECs!
To those of you who are resitting Year 12, remember the great successes some of our leavers have had from doing this: you need to knuckle down and start showing the qualities that they showed.
Year 12
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Opening the DOOR
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Key Dates
October 2015
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1st
Credit Suisse
Work Experience
application dead-
line
2nd
Oxbridge and
Medicine UCAS
deadline
Essay competition
deadline
3rd 4th
5th 6th
LSE lecture on
Liberty
7th
Year 13 final per-
sonal statement
deadline
8th 9th 10th 11th
Year 12 KCL K+
Application dead-
line
12th
AP1 tests
13th
AP1 tests
14th
AP1 tests
15th
AP1 tests
16th
AP1 tests
17th
18th
19th
AP1 tests
20th
AP1 tests
21st
AP1 tests
22nd
AP1 tests
23rd
AP1 tests
24th 25th
26th 27th
Tech Talks
28th 29th 30th 31st
Friday 10th November: LSE Sociology Lecture
Friday 13th November: all UCAS applications
deadline; Skills London Fair
Friday 11th December: PWC accountancy event
AP2: December
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University Open Days
There are a huge number of university open days throughout
October and November, and there is a comprehensive calendar
view available here at opendays.com.
For a university-by-university view use the UCAS website here.
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Academic Opportunities
Are you in Year 12 or 13?
Win up to £200 by entering this London Schools/Colleges Competition
What you have to do: in 1,500 words (+ or – 10%) write an open letter to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer justifying your views of the most important issues facing the new government.
Your letter must be submitted to your teacher as soon as it is ready but no later than 2nd Novem-
ber who will then determine the winning entry and submit it to the pool of winning entries
from all participating schools/colleges.
The awards? The winner at each school/college will receive an award of £100. If a school/
college has 5 or more entries, there will be a second award of £50 for the runner-up. All entrants
will receive a participation certificate.
The winner from the pool of winning entries will receive a further £100 and there will be three fur-
ther highly commended awards of £50.
The winner (plus one guest and teacher) from each school/college will be invited to attend a re-
ception in the City of London at 6pm on 1st December where the awards will be distributed.
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Academic Opportunities
The LSE regularly hold free lectures for the public which are of a high-academic standard and are
available on a first-come-first-serve basis. We strongly recommend that you go to a number of
these lectures throughout the year, and the full programme is here on their website.
Otherwise we have some recommendations for you:
Sociology and the Digital Revolution—the
Transformation of Everything
By Anthony Giddens
6:30pm to 8pm Tuesday 10th November 2015
Mr Colver recommends...Anthony Giddens is giving
a lecture on the digital world and how it may affects our
society - this is at the London School of Economics and
he is one of the most famous contemporary sociologists
of our time. Would be good for sociology students and
anyone else who has an interest in digital technology
and its impact. This is on the 10th November at 6:30pm
at the LSE and is free.
On Liberty: a Conversation with Shami
Chakrabarti
By Shami Chakrabarti
6:30pm Tuesday 6th October 2015
Mr Samuel recommends...Shami Chakrabarti is
one of Britain’s great public speakers and intel-
lects. I saw her taking part in a discussion about
the Magna Carta and Britain’s subsequent role in
human rights and her fierce intellect and passion
for change was palpable. I highly recommend go-
ing to hear her talk on this issue.
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Academic Opportunities
The School of Economic Science are a registered charity who offer innovative courses in spiritual
and practical knowledge and enquiry. They are hosting a course entitled “Introductory Practical
Philosophy” which is a 10 week course in timeless, practical philosophy.
The new course starts in January, so you have some time to think about this one!
It costs £10 in total as an administration fee and more details can be found here at the School of
Economic Science website.
Mr Colver recommends…
Mr Samuel recommends…
We would like to share with you a resource produced
by Medical Projects: a free guide for applying for medi-
cal school.
Please order this from their website here.
Furthermore, though for Year 12 only, UCL run a two -year
Target Medicine Mentoring Scheme for prospective Medicine
students. Applications will open around now, so check their
website here.
Year 12
Only
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Academic Opportunities
Hosted by King’s College London, K+ is a two-year programme of events, activities and academ-ic workshops created to help support your university application and provide the skills you need to reach your potential as an undergraduate student. More information is available on their web-site here. Apply online by 11th October. Your two-year experience will include:
A current King’s student as your e-mentor
Taster lectures and master classes
Cultural trips and experiences
Careers advice and work experience opportunities
Support and guidance on applying to and preparing for university
Help from a PhD tutor to create an academic project
A summer school experience
Year 12
Only
Mr Samuel recommends...This is a fantastic opportunity and the school was
support you with your application and your work throughout the programme.
Please apply!
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Job Opportunities
SKILLS LONDON - WHAT IS IT?
Skills London 2015 is London’s biggest jobs and careers event for young people. Two days of interactive activi-
ties and inspiring jobs and careers, held at ExCeL London, for 15-24 year olds and their families.
In 2014, Skills London attracted 32,490 visitors and featured over 45,000 job opportunities, including Appren-
ticeships, 196 exhibitors including top name employers, colleges, training providers and advisers.
Date: Friday 13th November 2015
Career Insights
If you are interested in at-
tending please speak to Ms
Thain or Mr Beach.
Thinking about a career in
accountancy?
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Job Opportunities
Mr Stevens recommends…
These talks will give you an insight into working in the Technology sector, and help you to understand why
it is one of the most exciting sectors to work in right now! It will also give you the chance to receive advice
on careers and options to get into the sector by the Tech City Stars team.
Be sure to stick around after the talks as you’ll have the opportunity to network and meet like-minded peo-
ple and build new, long-lasting relationships over pizza and cold refreshments…Tech Talks are not to be
missed!
Tuesday 27th October and Tuesday 8th December are the next two of these.
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Work Experience
Credit Suisse would like to offer an opportunity for students interested in a career in I.T to get
some hands on experience at Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse Group is a multinational financial
services holding company and operates the Credit
Suisse Bank and other financial services invest-
ments. The company is organized as a stock corpo-
ration with four divisions: Investment Bank-
ing, Private Banking, Asset Management, and a
Shared Services Group that provides marketing and
support to the other three divisions. This opportunity would focus on the role I.T plays in the
bank and how it is used to create revenue.
ICT Work Experience Opportunity
Deadline: 1st October 2015
See MS Thain or Mr Beach for an
application form.
We are looking for Year 12 students with an interest in international business and law to join
us for a week of work experience.
You will experience life in a city law firm, visit a number of organisations that are important to
the work we do and develop skills needed in the workplace.
You will be based in our London office, close to both Tower Hill and Aldgate tube stations.
This is an unpaid placement but we will cover the cost of reasonable expenses for lunch and
travel.
To apply, please send your CV and a short email explaining why you are interested in a ca-
reer in the legal sector to [email protected] by Friday 30th September.
Legal and Business Work Experience Opportunity
Deadline: 30th September
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Volunteering and Enrichment
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (D of E) is the world’s leading youth achievement award. It recognises people aged
from 14 to 24 who are adventurous, caring, sporty, and creative. It is a very enjoyable and interesting project to un-
dertake, and is a rewarding process. At the end of the programme, you will also have an award which is recognised
globally, including by the UK’s top employers and universities. The benefits include:
Learning a new skill:
Develop a new talent
Improve self-esteem and confi-dence
Develop practical and social skills
Develop better organisational and time management skills
Sharpen research skills
Learn how to rise to a challenge
Develop a physical
activity
Enjoy keeping fit
Improve fitness
Discover new abilities
Raise self-esteem
Extend person-al goals
Set and re-spond to a chal-lenge
Experience a sense of achievement
Volunteering
Learn about your community
Learn to take responsibility for your com-munity
Build new rela-tions
Further under-stand your own strengths and weaknesses
Develop team-work and lead-ership
Trust others and be trusted
Expedition
Appreciate the outdoors
Learn the val-ues of sharing responsibility
Attention to detail
Become more self-reliant
Learn to man-age risk
Recognise the needs and strengths of others
Learn through experience
Speak to Mr Tong about taking part, or come to his classroom (the Old LRC in-
side the Sixth Form Study Centre) at 3:30pm every Wednesday.
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Volunteering and Enrichment
Why volunteer? It is easier to ask, why not volunteer? Your time could be spent not just benefiting you but also ben-
efiting other people and organisations.
What’s in it for me? Well, other than the warm fuzzy feeling, you give yourself plenty to say on university and job ap-
plications but also at interview. Some voluntary places directly link to the course you plan to study at university and
even to your future career.
Find out more
www.do-it.org
www.volunteering.org.uk
www.vinspired.com
Your local council website
Find your nearest volunteering centre: www.ncvo.org.uk/ncvo-volunteering/find-a-volunteer-centre
Different ways to volunteer
Mentoring younger students—in your own school or with another
Working in a charity shop
Supporting museums and art galleries by working in the shop or giving
tours
Admin and secretarial support for a charity
Gardening, fixing up allotments and improving the environment for your
community
Promoting a charity at your school and in your community
Supporting at food banks
Fundraising for your favourite charity
Working with young people in a youth club, the Scouts or Brownies
Supporting a one-off charitable event by helping with promotion or food
service
Volunteer with a befriending organisation that supports the elderly or
those with special needs
Operate the phone lines for a charity, e.g. Childline, Silverline or dona-
tion lines
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Cultural Capital
Mr Johnstone recom-
mends...Beautifully written arti-
cles that are mathematically illumi-
nating, this is now one of my fa-
vourite books about maths.
Strogatz is a Professor of Applied
Maths at Cornell University, well
worth a follow on Twitter,
and originally he wrote these piec-
es for The New York Times. He
writes about complex topics such
as calculus in a way that take a
maths student far from their text-
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Cultural Capital
Mr Colver recommends...Visit the
Tate Britain,. There is lots of classic
and contemporary art and it is usually
a lot quieter than its sister, the Tate
Modern.
Mr Beach recommends...Those wishing to enrich their
minds with cultural indulgences should read article after
article on Brainpickings.org. This article is Nietzsche’s
musings on the power of music at aged just 14. I thorough-
ly recommend subscribing to the Brainpickings newsletter
– you will find the knowledge and cultural capital makes
you better armed for success in the world.
For more Cultural Capital, look at our Getting Started guide. This highlights
ongoing podcasts, periodicals and events to continue listening to, reading
and going to throughout the year.
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Getting Started
All Year 12 and 13 students should have
a Unifrog login. If you have forgotten your
password you can request a new one. If
you do not have an account please see
Ms Thain in the Sixth Form Study Centre.
Unifrog can help you find the best
courses and apprenticeships for you
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Getting Started
The Key Project is our dedicated pro-
gramme of university support for all
students and a resource for free aca-
demic tutoring for A-level students.
We are pleased to be able to offer A-level students the opportunity to join our Key Project tutor-
ing programme. The Key Project is an award winning programme that provides motivated stu-
dents with free after-school academic tuition. Attending weekly one-to-one tutorials helps our stu-
dents achieve better grades and progress to top universities. Students on The Key Project make
two thirds of a grade per subject more progress than their peers, and 63% of students go on to
study at highly selective universities.
You can carry on working with your tutors up until you leave school at the end of Year 13. All tu-
tors are successful university graduates, many working as solicitors with the law firm Slaughter
and May, the school’s closest business partner. Students meet their tutors weekly, at their place
of work and focus on the subject they have chosen to receive tuition in (English, Maths, History,
Geography, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, French or Spanish). Along with the one-to-
one tutorials, you will be receiving extensive university application support and advice throughout
their time in sixth form.
Please collect an application form from Mr Yala – Key Project Coordinator ya-
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
More or Less—BBC discussion of sta-
tistics in the news.
Podcasts
Podcasts are great way to develop your cultural
frame of reference and your communication
skills. Listen to how these podcasters communi-
cate at a high-level.
Subscribe to all of these on your phone, table
or computer, or just stream online when in
school.
Consider the following to get started:
Seriously…-BBC podcast series of the
best documentaries of the week across
all of their radio stations.
Best of Today—one of the most significant dai-
ly news programmes in media, distilled into the
most important or interesting segments each
day.
Thinking Allowed—Sociology podcast discussing
the latest research with guests
TED Radio Hour–a journey through fascinating ide-
as with world renowned speakers Profile—a 15 minute profile of
someone in the news.
Woman’s Hour—
offers a female per-
spective on the
world.
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Getting Started
Magazines
Long-form journalism is a wonderful art form. In longer form pieces journalists
are able to fully investigate, inquire and inspire. These are also some of the
most important pieces of journalism: it is the long-form pieces that help set
agendas and influence the opinion of politicians and other journalists.
Available in the LRC:
Try online:
Buy or subscribe:
The New Statesman—a left-leaning (Labour supporting), heavy hitting periodical. It has
great diversity, with great cultural commentators such as Will Self and Laurie Penny, as well
as significant political journalism.
The Economist-a right-leaning (liberal free-market supporting) periodical with a huge influ-
ence worldwide. All journalism is anonymous so that journalists feel free to attack without
censure.
The Guardian—not all the pieces on this left-wing newspaper’s website are long-form, but
many are. In particular, read the opinion pieces.
The Spectator—this right-leaning newspaper is a Conservative supporting periodical with
influence on the party.
London Review of Books—the school subscribe to this magazine, which is a reviewing peri-
odical examining the most important monthly book releases, both fiction and non-fiction.
Book reviewing is an art form and the reviews themselves offer considerable insight. Read
one a month.
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Getting Started
Books
You must continue the habit of reading regularly—or get into the habit! It will
open your mind and make you a more interesting person. It is also a pleasure
in and of itself—if you think you do not enjoy reading, then you have not yet
found the right book for you. Keep trying. Keep reading.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Author First Impression Depth and range
George Orwell 1984 and Animal Farm The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell; We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin; The Handmaid’s Tale by
Margaret Atwood
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men and Grapes of
Wrath
East of Eden by John Steinbeck; To Kill a Mock-
ingbird, by Harper Lee
Mary Shelley Frankenstein Dracula by Bram Stoker; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson; Swastika Night by
Katherine Burdekin
Author First Impression Depth and range
Naomi Klein No Logo The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capi-
talism by Naomi Klein; Silent Spring by Rachel
Carson
Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Extremes: The Short
Twentieth Century
Europe 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm; The
Black Jacobins, by C.L.R. James; Citizens, by
Simon Schama
Stephen Dubner and
Steven Levitt
Freakonomics SuperFreakonomics by Stephen Dubner and
Steven Levitt; The Tipping Point, by Malcolm
Gladwell